Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-27
State News.
ANpRoscoGGIS.

ANDRosCoGGIN.
Margaret Flaheriy was again arraigned be-
fore the Lewiston police court, Monday, her
case having been continued from Saturday,
July 18th. to await developments on the con-
dition of her husband, Patrick Flaherty,
whose skull she is alleged to have cracked
with stove cover on Friday, the 18th. She
was bound over under 81 500 bonds to Mon
day, Aug. 20.
During shower one dav last week, light.
ming struck tree in the pasture Of Tilden
House of North Turner. Splinters were
found upon his cattle which were near by but
all of which escaped uninjured.-A good
crop OF exceptionally good hay has been har-
vested 10 this vicinity.
A horse owned BY 81. futile, of Buckfeld,
driven by his son PANEL, fell and broke its
shoulder near East Buck6eld. The cause is
thought to have been q defect in the high = ay.
Henry Nulty, agent of the corn packing
establishment at East Buckfeld, had mar
row escape Friday afternoon, caused by his
horse steering at a pile of coal in front of
j A. Rawson's drug store. At the end of the
bridge one hind leg of the horse slipped over
the edge of the bridge. scraping his leg, and
nearle throwing Mr.. Nulty into the river
Through the persistent use of Paris green,
potatoes are in fiourishing condition in this
and neighboring towns, and the recent rain
insures an abundant crop.-It is reported that
q large crop of blueberries will be harvested
on Black mountain this season.
SAGADAHoC.
The New England Shipbuilding company
OF Bath is rapidly clearing away the ruins of
the late fire and has begun the erection of q
new blacksmith shop and will shortly put up
a new office. The vessels that were destroyed
are to be rebuilt at once. A keel is stretched
for another schooner of about ], 100 tons for
Capt. Theo. Anderson of Port Richmond,
Staten Island, and they are going to stretch a
keel for Capt. A. ]. Newbury of Jersey City.
She, too, will be about l,l00 tons. Mr.
Coombs, the book keeper, says that they
have about as many men at work now as be-
fore the fire. $50 at the yard, with ll9 at the
iron works, making a pay roll of nearly 81 900
a week.
The Times says: One or two of the Bath
amateur oarsmeD have signiied their inten-
ton of sending in their entries for the Ma
honey Junior sculling race which takes place
on the Charles River next Saturday Good
judges say that we have in Bath four scullers
who could go there and bring home the
second and third prizes anyway, if not the
first two. As one of the club put it yester-
day: Even if they do not get prize they
will learn more about SOULS and rowing in
one good race than they would in padding
round on the river month";"
WALDO.
Rev. and Mrs. d. B. Phelan of North
Bucksport, and their daughter were taken
violently sick Monday, July IL, after eating
green peas, supposed to have been raised
among potatoes which were dosed with Paris
green, reports the Up River News.
Mr.. j. W Mitchell of Belfast, recently ap.
pointed special constable by Gov. Bodweil,
has already made two liquor seizures. The
fines resulting therefrom, after the off ,er's
expenses are deducted will net the county
treasury $l67.-Crops all look excellently
well. Farmers in the neighboring towns
have their hay about two-thirds cut. Quality
and quantity fully up to the average.-About
$4,000 has been subscribed toward building
hotel on the Crosby lot
WASHINGTON.
The Mayor of Calais decided, Saturday,
that the Salvation Army may march as here
tofore, three evenings during the week, and
on Sunday morning before the church ser
vices begin, without interference BY the city
authorities. This leaves the matter on about
the same footing as they were before the
present trouble began.
YORK.
Mr.. Frank Bartlett died suddenly at his
home in North Kittery on Wednesday night
He rose in the night and went out aud shot
an animal that had entered the hen coop. and
on returning to the house was taken suddenly
sick, and died in few minutes. probably of
heart disease He was prominent 10 the
town affairs, having been a selectman for
five years. Few men in Kittery would be
missed more that Mr.. Bartlett.
A large bright white object appeared in the
eastern sky at o'clock Monday morning at
Oganquit and was very strange and unusual
sight. Old residents here knew what it was,
however, and say they have seen it whole
days at time They called it the Sun. For
long time it has not been visible to the
naked eve.
The Littlefield boy in Saco, who was in
strumental in causing the recent destructive
fire in that city, was again discovered last
Thursday, with bunch of matches, trying
to ignite pile of rubbish in the rear of the
same buildings where his former exploit was
performed. He was captured and has since
been kept under strict surveillance, evidently
being monomaniac on the subject of fire.
The Boston Globe reports many cases of
piphiheria at Sanford, and says many families
are leaving town on account of the disease.
But three deaths have occurred vet, but more